Sanitation Worker Charged With Drunk Driving Salt Spreader

By

Pervaiz Shallwani

Mar 26, 2014 10:07 am ET

A New York City sanitation worker was charged with drunk driving Wednesday morning when he struck a car while driving a salt spreader in Queens, police said.

Dewayne Ruddock, 33 years old, was on duty working to prepare for a forecast storm when he struck a parked car around 12:34 a.m. at 132nd and Rockaway Boulevard in the South Ozone Park neighborhood, police said.

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